Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

I always thought I can explain how anything in the world is built, at least to some extent. I always believed that I understood how machine learning functions. I was even developing a chess recognition app which operated effectively. However, the latest updates from this field are truly astonishing. I cannot explain how the trained models can produce such remarkable results.

Look, this model deciphers jokes and unravels narratives. I feel as though I am being deceived. It’s too astonishing to be authentic.

P.s. DALL-E 2 is already impressive

as it generates realistic images and artwork from a description in natural language.

Today I learned that there is Cebuano Wikipedia which has over 6 million articles, making Cebuano the foreign language after English with the most content on the wiki. Most of the articles were created by the bot called Ljsbot. Most of these are machine-translated articles with little to no quality control but still 🙂 6.5M articles – just a bit fewer articles than English. Sverker Johansson has got a great achievement point in his CV.

Also I found that there is a most published author named Philip Parker. He has published over 85,000 books, each of which is completed in less than an hour using algorithms. Parker published the automated books through Icon Group International, using several Icon group subheadings. Most of Parker’s automatically generated books target niche markets such as medicine. Example — the books can be bought on Amazon 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot.

https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88-265944/

This is a cedar-apple rust fungus (кедрово-яблочный гниющий гриб). Just photographed it after rain poured down all night. After the rain, the fungus turns orange and shows its swollen spore-bearing horns. Before the rain, while it grows, it resembles a coronavirus, a ball of reddish-brown cones with spikes (see the photograph in the comments). The botanical name is Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae.

This is a cedar-apple rust fungus (кедрово-яблочный гниющий гриб). Just photographed it after rain poured down all night. After the rain, the fungus turns orange and shows its swollen spore-bearing horns. Before the rain, while it grows, it resembles a coronavirus, a ball of reddish-brown cones with spikes (see the photograph in the comments). The botanical name is Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae.

A couple of thoughts have crossed my mind

– the apple watch firmly believes that walking my dog counts as a workout for me

– I don’t allow my dog to go into our backyard after dark. Because it’s too late

A couple of thoughts have crossed my mind

– the apple watch firmly believes that walking my dog counts as a workout for me

– I don’t allow my dog to go into our backyard after dark. Because it’s too late

Today is Nadya’s birthday. Well, maybe not exactly eighteen, but somewhere in that range. At least, in spirit.

And while she’s off at yoga somewhere, I’ve been glued to our photos together on my phone.

I’m doing what I can to make each year at least a little happier than the last for her, and to bring more and more vivid colors and impressions into her life 😉 though it’s quite a pleasant activity for both of us, there’s always a bit of chance and luck involved. Just to make sure it’s never quite enough! But overall, we seem to enjoy the same things.

Basically, I wish not to slow down! I’m not even sure who I’m wishing for, it’s her birthday, but I’m wishing for both of us. Because our paces are closely intertwined. And to Nadya, I wish fewer worries, especially in her volleyball coaching life. It’s incredibly hard in sports, but still;)

Kisses and hugs! ♥️

Nadezhda Shulga

Seems to me like my dog really believes that this loveseat couch was bought only for him to replace his small fluffy cuddler bed. And there’s me thinking about why he gave me those weird looks when I was sitting down on the couch next to him. Like, come on daddy go and eat my bowl food then if it comes down to it

TIL that in Hebrew and Arab music, accidentals might appear unusual. Eb, F#, Bb! Additionally, TIL that musical notation, typically written from left to right, can coexist with Hebrew or Arabic text, which is written from right to left. Hebrew words are divided into syllables (read from right to left) and are then organized from left to right. Quite confusing. There is also mirrored musical notation. Ivan Shapovalov Tatiana Loisha

I believe that in about five years we will see the first examples of compact drones “living” autonomously on roofs in big cities, in places of comparative safety, occasionally descending to carry out certain tasks. I’m not sure, perhaps surveillance or graffiti tasks. They will be powered by solar energy, and programmed to autonomously locate a safe nesting place on roofs for recharging (solar panels). Recharging may take a considerable amount of time, but who cares about a single drone when there is a swarm working in unison. Periodically, they will be able to connect to the Internet to upload the collected data to a secure cloud storage for their owners and to receive crucial updates about their mission from the cloud. They will be able to continuously communicate with nearby drones to coordinate their actions. From a technical perspective, all necessary technologies are already available today. It’s now down to producing the first operational prototypes.